Schematic representation of the sampling design used in this study at the Santa Bárbara Ecological Station A representation of the distribution of three sampling units of pitfall traps (the sampling design in each vegetation type); each sampling unit was composed of two straight lines of drift fence (each of them 40 m long, 60 cm high), each line with four 100-L buckets 10 m apart from each other B representation of the sampling units used in each vegetation type; the red sampling units were fire treatments of a study on the effects of fire on the herpetofauna, results of which will be published elsewhere.